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Gosling's solicitor, Digby Johnson, told reporters after his release from custody that detectives were 'largely satisfied' with the information he had given them.

Last night he said he admitted having told detectives the man's identity but said he would not reveal it to anyone but police to protect his family. 'It was a private love affair,' he said.

Ray Gosling admits to killing his gay lover as he wanders through a
graveyard during a BBC documentary

Gosling was arrested at the sheltered housing complex in Nottingham where he lives and questioned on suspicion of murder and released on bail until April, while police carry out further inquiries.

Before that he had made it clear he would not give up any details of the dead man. 'I will not answer their questions. There are laws that are written down in books, and there are laws of the heart,' he said.

He said he had not expected the amount of publicity his revelation on BBC East Midlands' Inside Out show had created, but added: 'I don't regret saying what I did on the television.

'The BBC didn't use me. They let me decide what I wanted to say. They told me the risks of doing it.'

Now he has vowed to continue making programmes and writing his autobiography, a copy of which was seized by police when they raided his home.

The manuscript – with a working title of
Bedroom Olympics – was among a hoard of papers seized in the raid.

The autobiography details Gosling's
sexual conquests

But he thanked the police for the way he was treated while in custody, and said he had been 'touched' by the support he had received since being freed.

'My shoulders are bruised from all of the hugs I have had,' he said.

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BBC veteran Ray Gosling DID tell police the name of the lover he killed